I built a C-capable, DOM-native JavaScript Runtime in Pure Python

Michael — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:03:36 +0000

I just released myjs on PyPI (pip install myjs or pipx install myjs).

It’s a Python-native JavaScript runtime that bridges Python’s AST capabilities, native DOM primitives (domonic), and direct C-level Foreign Function Interface (FFI) bindings into a unified JavaScript execution scope.

🌐 The Pitch
Why build another JS interpreter?

In traditional stacks, if you want JavaScript to talk to native C libraries or manipulate server-side DOM structures, you end up juggling node-gyp, C++ addon build chains, or heavy IPC bridges like gRPC/REST between Node.js and Python.

myjs collapses all of that into a single, pure-Python process.

Because myjs parses JS (via an Acorn AST engine ported to Python) and executes it directly inside Python’s host scope, JavaScript code gains direct access to:

Python’s DOM Tree: Real-time DOM manipulation via domonic.

C Libraries & Shared Memory: Direct low-level access to system .so, .dylib, and .dll binaries via Python’s ctypes/cffi.

Python Standard Library: Clean mapping between JS scopes and host OS capabilities.

🚀 Quick Demo: C Memory, FFI, & DOM in JS
Here is what running a script in myjs looks like:

JavaScript
// myjs_demo.js

// 1. Call system C functions directly from JS without compilation!
const libc = ffi.loadLibrary('libc.dylib'); // Or 'c' / 'msvcrt'

const absVal = libc.abs(-42);
const sqrtVal = libc.sqrt(2);

window.console.log('C abs(-42) =', absVal);
window.console.log('C sqrt(2) =', sqrtVal);

// 2. Manipulate a native Python DOM tree via Hyperscript h()
function h(tag, props, ...kids) {
const el = document.createElement(tag);
for (const k in props) {
if (k === 'text') el.textContent = props[k];
else el.setAttribute(k, props[k]);
}
kids.forEach(c => el.appendChild(
typeof c === 'string' ? document.createTextNode(c) : c
));
return el;
}

document.body.appendChild(
h('main', { class: 'card' },
h('h1', { text: 'Executed by myjs' }),
h('p', { text: 'Real Python DOM tree rendered from JS!' })
)
);

window.console.log('DOM Tree:', document.body.outerHTML);
Run it via pipx:

Bash
$ pipx install myjs
$ myjs myjs_demo.js
Output:

Plaintext
C abs(-42) = 42
C sqrt(2) = 1.4142135623730951
DOM Tree =

Executed by myjs

Real Python DOM tree rendered from JS!

host = Darwin arm64 | python 3.13.12
💡 Key Features
Zero C-Compilers Required: Call C dynamic libraries, allocate raw C memory buffers, and pass function pointers straight from JS. Python’s runtime handles ABI resolution dynamically.

Pure Python Portability: Embeddable anywhere Python runs—no heavy binary blobs (like V8) required.

Direct DOM Integration: Mutate real domonic Python DOM nodes from within JS scripts.

📦 Try It Out
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/myjs/

Installation: pip install myjs or pipx install myjs

I’d love to hear feedback, feature ideas, or wild use cases from anyone interested in language runtimes, Python/JS interop, or native FFI bindings!

convert javascript to python

Michael — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:49:49 +0000

It's now easier to convert javascript to python than every before due to domonic! A full DOM in Python. see here:

https://github.com/byteface/domonic-libs/

Just clone this repo and tell claude what library you want to port, to make it faithful and lean on domonic's dom.py and javascript.py and bingo an hour later and a few reprompts and out pops a compatible library.

Beautiful Slop

Michael — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:06:05 +0000

I used AI to create a bs4 compatibility layer for domonic...

https://domonic.readthedocs.io/packages/bs4/

It's called Beautiful Slop, let me know what you think

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I built a C-capable, DOM-native JavaScript Runtime in Pure Python

Executed by myjs

convert javascript to python

Beautiful Slop